Tried various MP servers for a few months - the game is great SP - MP, it's a pile of fail. Most servers are great if you're into griefers and pedobait admins who are as predictable as their hormones tied to their SAT scores, but any serious builders should avoid MP like the plague. Seriously - have you met a mod that is old enough to drink yet? I sure haven't. Notch - your multiplayer sucks.
Here's a great example of why MP is a pile of massive fail. mc.crystalgaming.org
Before (with the help of some other nice players) :
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After (thanks to one mod whose balls haven't dropped) :
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The amount of server populated by kids outranks adult hosted servers. The amount of servers that are decent but collapse because the minors running them discover they need money for bandwith outnumbers the ones that don't. The number of griefers, idiot mods, and general stupidity means that even thinking - let alone making - any large project is pointless outside of SP. Notch - your MP sucks period. And just when you thought the base level of suck couldn't get worse - you have morons like Voxel screwing up the UI to the point of uselessness - and being adopted by idiots who know **** about UI and think it's kewl. Thanks Voxel for making something horrible - even worse (an impressive achievement). How about servers that start Whitelisted - and then become unwhitelisted? The list of fail goes on and on.
I could host a YouTube channel that provides MST3K commentary with Bill Hicks / Dennis Leary sarcasm that would have a limitless supply of horrible MP servers to choose from to feature - that's how bad MP sucks. Not a bad idea come to think of it.
Forgot the part of how whitelisted servers suck too - thx for reminding me (wait to get approved - find same suck as non-whitelisted - or worse - watch a whitelisted server revert to unlisted - oh joy, rapture!)
Oh you want links to all the other servers I referenced? Ok - how many pages of posts do you want, and how much time do you have?
BTW: Fries are done!
You said, "various servers" or something like that. I really doubt that there is a server called "various servers" out there.
PS: I like my fries burnt. they still got a couple minutes left.
as for you, good luck tomorrow at you high end job as a pharmacist making more money then everyone else in your graduating class of highschool put together. I really hope that no unruly customers get you down and make you feel bad about your work or something.
PPS: I would actually like that "list" of one server and one imaginary server that you mentioned. I want every single one. I've got all the time in the world.
I think SMP servers suck, it's just town after town of random things, floating blocks and lag. The only thing I like to do on SMP is start a fresh vanilla world and play with atleast two others.
I mentioned several actually - reading comprehension fail - but have fun at Burger King tomorrow and keep reaching for the stars.
And in the scheme of things, several basically means that you haven't even given MP a chance. Obviously you worked hard on this, and something unfortunate happened. But, no one on the forums wants to hear you rage about how much you think Notch is responsible for this problem. Notch doesn't moderate servers; he made this game that you obviously enjoy playing. I have played on many good servers with admins who are legal adults, and have common sense. Please don't go around the forums saying how much so and so is responsible for a childish admin. I agree what happened was wrong. But no one wants to hear this.
Multiplayer is actually pretty great, you just have to find a whitelisted server with nice people. I found one and am having an awesome time building an adventure map with some awesome guys.
So you complain about griefers AND whitelists? Interesting. It also seems that server didn't keep back-ups of the world either. I think that server sucked, not all of them. The one I play on is fine, haven't been griefed and I got whitelisted in about a day. If you can't handle these minor things, you're the one acting like a child. Finding a good server takes time, try being a grown up and accept this. If you're gonna complain about MP/SMP at least complain about the things that are actually wrong with it. You complain about the people? From your complaints I hope to god you never play on Xbox LIVE because that is all there is on LIVE.
Basically here is a little checklist:
-Find whitelisted server
-Make sure it backs up every so often
-Before starting a project, feel out the mods
If you can't find one you like, make one. If you can find plugins through Bukkit that can make you happy you're standards are WAY too high.
dude ive been on LOADS of servers and i find heaps of them with decent mods and admins i suggest if you want a good server try signing up for the Minecraft Workbench server on their whitelist it has always had a whitelist and sure it will continue
Multiplayer is fine, your complaining about the community. You are the one that chooses the server you play on.
If you dislike a server its not notch's fail, its the server's.
You could make your own private server to play on with friends or you could play on a whitelisted server. Many of them have anti-griefing plugins, good mods/admins and map backups.
MP code is buggy. There's no way around it. Things crash. Chunks blow up. The client lags. Monsters always hit you first. It's a poorly set up system that, unfortunately, cannot be improved all that much.
Then there's the community. I hesitate to call them such- that would be akin to calling a bloodthirsty, angry mob a peaceful demonstration. It's simply awful. Immaturity is abound, few people seem to possess basic grammatical skills, and far too many players find nothing to do but grief other people's creations.
Minecraft Multiplayer netcode is utter crap and laggy as hell, and the thing that bothers me the most is you can't have mature people on a server. I'd like to play true vanilla SMP with a few management plugins, and everybody would respect things others would build; not **** them up. It's really a shame that you have people roaming around screwing stuff up for the 'lulz'. I can understand team avo, they target retarded servers. But these freelance people just walking around doing **** to **** people off is annoying.
Sure, it's a game, but you spend more than an hour on something and *plop*. That's why SSP is preferable to SMP because of 1, Mod support, and 2, do whatever you want without annoying 'protections'. There are PVP servers that try to achieve #2, but in the end you'll be holed up in an ungraceful stone cave.
...I admit to having been one of those underage server admins.
I, pearsonly don't like most servers, why? Because they dont really focus on the survival aspect of Minecraft, most people just build random ****. I want a nice, greifer free server that doesn't have boundreys.
When something tastes like penis, I tend to gag. Sad but true.
aww i lol'd and hard at that. Great job on getting most to rage on you. Job well done. This was a good read indeed, i still dont know if your serious or not, but the people on this forum are a lot nicer then i would have thought. A lot of people really trying to point you to a good server. All in all it was funny.
Here, i have quoted all of your posts and highlighted all of the servers that you mentioned, and it was, in fact, only one.
You said, "various servers" or something like that. I really doubt that there is a server called "various servers" out there.
PS: I like my fries burnt. they still got a couple minutes left.
as for you, good luck tomorrow at you high end job as a pharmacist making more money then everyone else in your graduating class of highschool put together. I really hope that no unruly customers get you down and make you feel bad about your work or something.
PPS: I would actually like that "list" of one server and one imaginary server that you mentioned. I want every single one. I've got all the time in the world.
I saw nothing wrong with your building that would possibly be mistaken for nazzism....oh wait
You are an idiot and I am thankfull you hate SMP so I will never have to deal with you.
And in the scheme of things, several basically means that you haven't even given MP a chance. Obviously you worked hard on this, and something unfortunate happened. But, no one on the forums wants to hear you rage about how much you think Notch is responsible for this problem. Notch doesn't moderate servers; he made this game that you obviously enjoy playing. I have played on many good servers with admins who are legal adults, and have common sense. Please don't go around the forums saying how much so and so is responsible for a childish admin. I agree what happened was wrong. But no one wants to hear this.
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Basically here is a little checklist:
-Find whitelisted server
-Make sure it backs up every so often
-Before starting a project, feel out the mods
If you can't find one you like, make one. If you can find plugins through Bukkit that can make you happy you're standards are WAY too high.
I would recommend this server:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/571201-181minecrafters-nearly-vanilla-smp-247-no-lag-online-for-2-months/
When you do MP is fantastic.
If you dislike a server its not notch's fail, its the server's.
You could make your own private server to play on with friends or you could play on a whitelisted server. Many of them have anti-griefing plugins, good mods/admins and map backups.
MP code is buggy. There's no way around it. Things crash. Chunks blow up. The client lags. Monsters always hit you first. It's a poorly set up system that, unfortunately, cannot be improved all that much.
Then there's the community. I hesitate to call them such- that would be akin to calling a bloodthirsty, angry mob a peaceful demonstration. It's simply awful. Immaturity is abound, few people seem to possess basic grammatical skills, and far too many players find nothing to do but grief other people's creations.
Hmm... Allow me to make this quote prettier.
Really, this guy thinks everyone is stupid.
Sure, it's a game, but you spend more than an hour on something and *plop*. That's why SSP is preferable to SMP because of 1, Mod support, and 2, do whatever you want without annoying 'protections'. There are PVP servers that try to achieve #2, but in the end you'll be holed up in an ungraceful stone cave.
...I admit to having been one of those underage server admins.
aww i lol'd and hard at that. Great job on getting most to rage on you. Job well done. This was a good read indeed, i still dont know if your serious or not, but the people on this forum are a lot nicer then i would have thought. A lot of people really trying to point you to a good server. All in all it was funny.
I like turtles.